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Space Platform(스페이스 플랫폼)은 미국 작가 머레이 레인스터(Murray Leinster)의 청소년 SF 소설로 1953년에 Shasta 출판사에서 5,000부의 판으로 출판되었다. 작가의 조 켄모어(Joe Kenmore) 시리즈의 첫 번째 소설이다.
Space Platform은 우주 탐험의 가능성을 탐구하는 긴장감 넘치고 흥미진진한 이야기로 오늘날에도 여전히 독자들에게 사랑을 받고 있는 고전 SF 소설이다.


Space Platform is a young adult science fiction novel by American author Murray Leinster, published in 1953 by Shasta Publishing in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the first novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series.
Space Platform is a classic science fiction novel that is still loved by readers today with its suspenseful and exciting story that explores the possibilities of space exploration.

요약
이야기는 우주 여행을 꿈꾸는 청년 조 켄모어(Joe Kenmore)의 이야기다. 그는 우주 정거장 건설을 위한 일급 비밀 프로젝트인 우주 플랫폼의 승무원 중 한 명으로 선택되면서 기회를 얻게 된다.
우주 플랫폼은 과학 연구와 미래 우주 임무의 기지로 사용될 대형 궤도 정거장이다. Kenmore와 다른 승무원들은 Space Platform을 구축하기 위해 노력하면서 많은 어려움을 극복해 나가야 하는데…

Summary
The story is about Joe Kenmore, a young man who dreams of space travel. He gets his chance when he is selected as one of the crew members of the Space Platform, a top secret project to build a space station.
A space platform is a large orbital station that will be used for scientific research and as a base for future space missions. Kenmore and the rest of the crew must overcome many challenges as they work to build the Space Platform...

Contents

CHAPTER I. There wasn’t anything underneath but clouds
CHAPTER II. It was a merely misty day
CHAPTER III. The pilot made an examination down the floor-plate hole
CHAPTER IV. Joe was incongruously aware of all the noises in the Shed
CHAPTER V. There was nobody in the world to whom the Space Platform
CHAPTER VI. Major Holt wasn’t to be found when Joe got out to the Shed
CHAPTER VII. Nobody could have gone through the changes of emotion Joe
CHAPTER VIII. Joe dunked the bottled soft drinks in the lake to cool
CHAPTER IX. It was not, however, the crack of doom.
CHAPTER X. The world turned over on its axis with unfailing regularity
CHAPTER XI. Joe sat on the porch of Major Holt’s quarters in the area next to the Shed
CHAPTER XII. The incoming shift had a messy clean-up job to do
CHAPTER XIII. On the day of the take-off there were a number of curious side-effects